First half-Awesome, Second Half-Bad Boys 3?

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2005)

I liked the first half of this movie, I thought Ewan and Scarlett Johansen did a great job portraying their characters. It started out as a cool, original, somewhat creepy, science-fiction movie, and it caught my interest, especially the scene between Ewan Megreggor and Sean Bean in the office, and even when he confronts his sponsor. But once the two characters got into that Cadillac, the movie took a drastic turn. It went from a plot driven, thought provoker, to an explosion invested, Bad Boys II look-alike. Maybe it's because Bruckhiemer wasn't there to dictate Micheal Bay's every move, so Bay just spliced some of the Will Smith high-way scene into The Island. Don't get me wrong, Bruckhiemer/Bay films definitely have there place, and I do enjoy them, but the tone and style of filming is being carried over into movies that should not be, but are, driven by action. Some of the action, like the scenes with the flying motorcycles, or Wasps, were quite good and entertaining, but the chase scene on the freeway or the sequence when the two main characters fall out the window of a building and cling to a gigantic letter R, which no one knows why is there, and fall to an implausible net below, could have both been revamped and made into sequences that actually pertain to the film.
Overall, this was a decent movie, and worth seeing for yourself, but it could have been much better....